The Daily Blog Open Mic – 27th February 2023

I really like this from Chris Strotter. Well expressed in common language we can all understand and a bit of humour. With this wise approach we can face the raw edges of our future in a vital, moral and hopefully vivacious manner, even if we are stumped ultimately.
https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2023/02/censoring-fantastic-mr-dahl.html

The answer, of course, is that children need to know that the world can be an extremely dangerous place. They need to know that it is filled with quirky, alarming, and sometimes downright dangerous people. Children need to be able to reach back into their internal libraries for the sort of role models Roald Dahl specialised in creating: not always good; not always nice; but without doubt clever, brave, and entertainingly resourceful.

When disaster strikes, it matters – a lot – that it does not strike a society raised in the carefully nurtured belief that there are no disasters. That dishonest, abusive and downright dangerous people do not, in fact, exist. That being raised to recognise moments in which behaving sweetly simply will not cut it, is a good thing, not a bad thing. Moments when the resourceful trickster is a better role model than the politically-correct goody-two-shoes who would never dream of calling anybody “fat”. Call them Roald Dahl moments.

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Greywarbler February 27, 2023 At 4:05 pm

I really like this from Chris Strotter. Well expressed in common language we can all understand and a bit of humour. With this wise approach we can face the raw edges of our future in a vital, moral and hopefully vivacious manner, even if we are stumped ultimately.
https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2023/02/censoring-fantastic-mr-dahl.html

The answer, of course, is that children need to know that the world can be an extremely dangerous place. They need to know that it is filled with quirky, alarming, and sometimes downright dangerous people. Children need to be able to reach back into their internal libraries for the sort of role models Roald Dahl specialised in creating: not always good; not always nice; but without doubt clever, brave, and entertainingly resourceful.

When disaster strikes, it matters – a lot – that it does not strike a society raised in the carefully nurtured belief that there are no disasters. That dishonest, abusive and downright dangerous people do not, in fact, exist. That being raised to recognise moments in which behaving sweetly simply will not cut it, is a good thing, not a bad thing. Moments when the resourceful trickster is a better role model than the politically-correct goody-two-shoes who would never dream of calling anybody “fat”. Call them Roald Dahl moments.

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